Josh Perkins, who transferred from Regis Jesuit to Huntington Prep, also made the list.

The final team, to be announced during the McDonald’s All American Games Selection Show on ESPNU at 4 p.m. Jan. 29, will consist of 24 boys and 24 girls. The game will take place April 2 at the United Center in Chicago.

Josh Perkins, the former Regis Jesuit High School basketball standout who transferred to Huntington Prep in West Virginia, announced today on KUSA that he will verbally commit to Gonzaga.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior led Class 5A in scoring with 25.2 points and added 6.5 assists last season for the Raiders. He choose the Bulldogs over Minnesota and UCLA. He reportedly had an offer from Colorado, as well.

Josh Perkins, Regis Jesuit boys basketball’s junior star, has narrowed his list of schools to nine, according to the Aurora Sentinel and Scout.com.

Those schools, per the Sentinel: Arizona, Colorado, Denver, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico and Stanford.

All but Duke have offered, according to Rivals.com, ESPN.com and Scout.com.

Perkins, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound combo guard, is averaging a Class 5A-leading 25.3 points, as well as 5.8 assists, 7.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game for the eighth-ranked Raiders (9-3). Tuesday, he scored 27 points and had nine rebounds and six assists in a 74-61 win over George Washington. Kansas coach Bill Self was there to watch. Read more…

The Colorado Chaos Basketball Club will hold its Rocky Mountain Fall Showcase for the tenth-consecutive year this October.

The event, which routinely draws the best club teams and players in the region, will be Oct. 6 at Legend High School. It will feature five games: freshmen (11 a.m.), sophomores (1 p.m.), juniors (3 p.m.), seniors (5 p.m.) and Top Twenty (7 p.m.).

The list of players expected to participate is staggering — and amounts to a virtual pool of players who will likely be considered for The Show next spring.

They’re looked to as the best talent in Colorado’s loaded boys basketball class of 2014: Dominique Collier and Josh Perkins, two rising sophomores who Monday were selected to The Show, the state’s annual all-star game.

It’s just the latest chapter in what should be a fantastic book by the time both graduate. By then, both Collier and Perkins will have become national Division I recruits, glaring exceptions to the “Colorado doesn’t produce Division I players” stereotype.

Regis Jesuit's Michael French goes up for a shot in the lane over Mitch Parsons of Chaparral.

AURORA — There was perhaps no more pertinent and timely chant than the one that emanated out of the Regis Jesuit student section as the clock ticked down on the Raiders’ 74-67 win over Chaparral on Friday night.

“Num-ber One,” the students shouted in unison. “Num-ber One.”

It was alternatively a taunt and a boast.

Chaparral (18-3) had just become the second top-ranked 5A squad to succumb to the Raiders (17-3) on their home court within a week. Is there any question that Regis Jesuit should now take its turn atop the coaches’ poll?

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.